ALL EVENTS WILL BE HELD AT PUSHKIN HOUSE, 5A BLOOMSBURY SQUARE, WC1A
2TA, AT 7.00 P.M.
Monday June 17th: Sponsored by the STEPHEN SPENDER FOUNDATION, this
evening will be devoted to the work of three recent winners of the
Brodsky-Spender Translation Prize: Alexandra Berlina, Boris Dralyuk
and Irina Mashinski. Sasha Dugdale will interview Boris and Irina
about translating Arseny Tarkovsky; Glyn Maxwell and Alexandra Berlina
will talk about translating Joseph Brodsky.
Tuesday June 18th: OSIP MANDELSTAM (sponsored by the PUSHKIN CLUB).
Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk, Peter France and others will discuss
and read from new translations of one of the greatest of C20 European
poets. Alexandra Berlina, Masha Karp and Irina Mashinski will read
some poems in Russian.
Wednesday June 19th: THE SOVIET UNION'S OTHER POETS (sponsored by the
G.B.RUSSIA ASSOCIATION). Much attention has been focussed for many
years on Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Tsvetaeva - all of them
poets with dramatic biographies. This has led us to neglect other
fine poets - Semyon Lipkin, Maria Petrovykh, Boris Slutsky and Arseny
Tarkovsky (father of the great film director) whose lives were less
dramatic. All four supported themselves for much of their lives by
translating and were able to publish their own work only relatively
late in life. Stephen Capus, Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk and
Katherine Young will read from their translations; Alexandra Berlina,
Masha Karp and Irina Mashinski will read some poems in Russian.
Thursday June 20: RUSSIA'S OTHER POETS - FYODOR TYUTCHEV AND AFANASY
FET (sponsored by the PUSHKIN CLUB). Tyutchev is often considered the
greatest Russian lyrical poet after Pushkin, yet to most English
lovers of poetry he is only a name; Afanasy Fet is barely even that.
Lazy talk about poetry's untranslatability obscures the fact that
there are now a number of good translations of both poets. Robert
Chandler, Boris Dralyuk, John Dewey and others will read both from
their own translations and from the brilliant translations of Frances
Cornford (1886-1960). Alexandra Berlina, Masha Karp and Irina
Mashinski will read some poems in Russian.
Tickets £7 (£5 Conc.)
More info. soon at http://www.pushkinhouse.org/events
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Immediately before these evenings, there will be a two-day workshop at
St Antony?s College, Oxford, exploring the practice of literary
translation from Russian in poetry, prose and drama.
For full programme,:
http://www.ceelbas.ac.uk/ceelbas-news/events/russian-translation
Entry is free but registration is essential, as places are limited. To
register, please write to [log in to unmask]
All the best,
Robert
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